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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Bangdb vs. Tarantool vs. TimesTen vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#143	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

bangdb.com

www.tarantool.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.bangdb.com

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

4D, Inc

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1984

2012

2008

1998

2009

Current release

v20, April 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.10.0, May 2022

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL like support with command line tool

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Open binary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes, write ahead logging

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes (enterprise version only)

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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